Hey all,

I have been building a list of exchanges affiliate programs and related platforms. I originally posted this over in Beginners & Help, but felt it would serve better here.
If you want direct links you can find them here: https://www.cryptotrust.ca/exchanges

Binance
The worlds largest exchange which has Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB) and USDT trading pairs.
Commission: 20% of Binance fees for referred users indefinitely.

BitMEX
The most popular future trading exchange, offering very high leverage for margin trading (Cross to 100x).
Commission: 10% of BitMEX fees for referred users indefinitely. The person you refer also gets a 10% discount on fees for 6 months.

HitBTC
This popular exchange which is known for listing very new coins. The platform currently supports BTC, ETH, USDT and ICO trading pairs.
Commission: 50% of HitBTC fees for referred users indefinitely.

Cryptopia
This exchange has grown significantly in popularity due to a built in marketplace arbitrage calculator.
Commission: 10% of Cryptopia fees for referred users indefinitely.

LocalBitcoins
The original peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange. You can pay with Direct Deposit, Interac e-transfer, Moneygram, PayPal, PaysafeCard, Credit Card, Wester Union and Cash.
Commission: 40% of LocalBitcoins fees for referred users for 3 months.

Bitpanda
BitPanda allows users to buy and sell Bitcoins with a credit card, Paypal account and more throughout Europe. ​
Commission: €2.50 for every referred users registers.

YoBit
The most diverse exchange offering the most trading pairs and new listings with ICO and investment opportunities.
Commission: 20% of YoBit fees for referred users indefinitely.

Coinbase
User-friendly secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Buy Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC)
​Commission: $10 after referred user spends $100.

KuCoin
Upcoming popular exchange which is known for listing very new coins. The platform currently supports BTC, ETH, NEO and USDT pairings.
20% of KuCoin fees for referred users indefinitely.

CoinEgg
The largest Chinese exchange which has Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and USC trading pairs.
Commission: 30% of CoinEgg fees for referred users indefinitely.

CoinSquare
Canadian cryptocurrency platform for buying and selling Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC) and other digital currencies.
Commission: $20 once referred user is verified and funded.

CEX.IO
This exchange offers Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCC), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Ethereum (ETH), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH) and other Altcoins.
Commission: 30% of CEX.IO fees for referred users indefinitely.

Coinmama
One of the view exchange allows you to buy digital currency with credit cards.
Commission: 10% of Coinmama fees for referred users indefinitely.

Exmo
Digital currency trading platform and wallet service that is used by almost half a million traders from around the world.
Commission: 25% of Exmo fees for referred users indefinitely.

BitBay
Global bitcoin payment service provider since 2011. Allows business to process cryptocurrency transactions in real time.
Commission: 20% of BitPay fees for referred users first deposit.

Changelly
Changelly is a cryptocurrency exchange service between digital currencies with credit cards.
Commission: 50% of Changelly revenue for referred users indefinitely.

XCoins
Like an exchange, but focused on secure lending. It allows users to quickly get Bitcoin quickly and pay later. Instant contracts for buyers and sellers.
Commission: 50% of xCoins transactions fees for referred users indefinitely. Tier 1 referrals 15% and Tier 2 3%.

QuadrigaCX
QuadrigaCX is one of the largest BTC and ETH exchanges in Canada. They provide a safe platform to trade and exchange BTC and ETH to CAD and have multiple withdrawal and deposit methods.
Commission: 10% of QuadrigaCX fees for referred users indefinitely.

ShapeShift
The leading instant digital asset exchange, supporting dozens of blockchain tokens including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH) and Dogecoin (DOGE).
Commission: .25% of ShapeShift  total sale each month from referred users.

CoinExchange
Smaller exchange focused on altcoins which has a very low fee of 0.15%.
Commission: 2.5% of initial commission rates (maker) and 5% for fee commission (taker) for referred users.

SimpleFX
This exchange is pushing the mobile industry with a large amount of fiat to cryptocurrency options.
Commission: 25% of SimpleFX trading spread and fees for each referred users.

Bit-z
Bit-Z is one of the world leading digital asset trading exchanges, providing professional digital asset trading and OTC (Over The Counter) services.
Commission: 50% of Bit-z trade revenue for referred user indefinitely.

Bitit
Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and other cryptocurrencies purchases by credit card, cash, direct banking. Pay in your local currency.
Commission: 9% of Bitit's commission fees per verified user.

Paxful
Custom marketplace for buying, spending and accepting Bitcoin (BTC).
Commission: 2% of sale on Paxful for anyone that uses your marketplace.

Indacoin
Indacoin is a flexible payment provider and merchant that sells over 30 cryptocurrencies.
Commission: .5% for every Indacoin referred user. The more users referred overtime you will be increased to 1%, 2% and 3%.

Bitsane
Full-featured spot trading exchange for Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Iconomi (ICN)
Commission: 20% of Bitsane transactions of referred users including 25 EUR bonus for fiat deposit.

PayBis
PayBis is a safe and easy to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) with credit card accepting Visa and MasterCard.
Commission: 10% to start, max 20% based off volume of commission fees for referred users.

Xapo
Xapo provides the tools you need to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and store via online wallet ultra-secure Vault.
Commission: $10 after referred user spends $100.

Building a deeper list here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041716

Pretty good list there, even caught the commission structure of BitPanda (which I am now using with increasing frequency) except that you only get the 2.5 EUR for a Gold verified customer (that's the highest level). You get a lifetime 5% on fees... it's really not worth if you're just referring a few people but there you go.


You'll find almost any site that provides reviews of these exchanges using aff links. Most try a sort of cashback programme so people earn back a bit of their fees. Can't imagine all the hassle is worth anyone's time, but I'm not a whale so I wouldn't know. My early internet life was spent promoting a lot of affiliate programs, made some good income when things like these were still new. Powerful network effect I guess. Almost forgot about this little earning niche for crypto - I know a lot of early gamblers who made loads of Bitcoin from casino referrals. The only guaranteed profit in gambling, almost...

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Depending on your involvement in the community and how dedicated you are to promote, you can make quite a bit of coin from referrals. I found the best way (on my websites) is to offer a choice to the reader. Usually it will be like:

Article about crypto and exchanging, etc. At the end for the links I always use this format


Obviously it is shorter than that or an explanation is given before the links, but you would be surprised at how many people will click the referral link over the non-ref link simply because you gave them a choice. People like to have choices, and when you give them one, instead of hiding the reflink, they will often click your ref link in return. Also many ref links give a bonus to the person who signs up also, so win-win.

Cheers,

MisterCoin-

Thank you for the list. It definitely surprised me when there were so many exchanges with affiliate programs around. There are some exchanges that I would definitely avoid though such as xcoins and yobit, because the former deals with extremely high risk payment methods, and the latter is just a semi-functional exchange with no support and problems arising everywhere.

Not sure if this would fit, but I'm sure that most people that uses bitcoin probably initially bought some BTC from virwox.

They have a referral program too, according to the page here: https://www.virwox.com/vpn_help.php#_referral_fee. You get 20% of the commissions of your direct referrals, and 20% of any referral earnings made by your direct referrals.

Very comprehensive list. I think it'll be help a lot of people for sure.

Instead of just posting a short introduction for each of the exchanges, I think it'll make more sense to have a review section for each exchange as well. Perhaps have a rank for the exchanges as well. People then can get a better idea of which exchange to use if they do have the tools to get the required referrals.

But to be honest, unless you own a popular crypto related website or have a lot of friends and family who are interested in trading cryptos, you're probably not going to make anything worthwhile from these affiliate programs. Not saying that you can't, it's just really hard to do it and could waste a lot of your time & effort trying to recruit people.

ICE3X is an exchange in South Africa which have just launched crypto only trading pairs. From what I can see it pays the highest affiliate fees, although I think this will probably change when liquidity increases.

If people consider faucet payouts to be worthwhile, then this is too. On top of that, most people do everything at once (i.e. bounty, faucet, captcha, referral, etc) which results in more interesting amounts at the end of the ride when everything has accumulated. At the very beginning I thought exactly like how most people nowadays think when it comes to similar ways of 'earning' small bits, but there are thousands and thousands of people finding these amounts sufficient enough to allocate time and effort for, especially when it comes to people from third world countries. Different people means different standards....

You can check and join our BitBay affiliate program, to see more about it just visit our website here:

https://bitbay.net/en/affiliate-program

@Spazzer, could you please add CoinDeal to that list? CoinDeal.com offers the affiliate program where for inviting your friends to trade on CoinDeal, you will receive 20% of their trading fees as a reward for the recommendation. Check CoinDeal`s website for details affiliate program

ErisX, the new upcoming regulated US Exchange could be interesting. There is still not much information about the details so far, here is something I found.

https://coincodex.com/article/2438/the-upcoming-erisx-cryptocurrency-exchange-receives-backing-from-td-ameritrade-virtu-financial-and-more/